Comfortably Numb: The Inside Story Of Pink Floyd, Mark Blake's superb biography of the band (published in Europe under the title Pigs Might Fly), goes on sale in the US in all major bookstores from December 31st, 2007.

Drawing on his own interviews with all of the band members, plus almost a hundred new interviews with the group's friends, road crew, producers, designers, former house mates and university colleagues - some of whom have never spoken before - as well as musical contemporaries including Pete Townshend and Alice Cooper, the book follows Pink Floyd all the way from the early psychedelic nights at UFO in the mid-sixties to the fragile, tantalising reunion in Hyde Park, and we found it a truly captivating and absorbing read. Our review will be on the site shortly, but in the meantime this new, US edition can be ordered direct from Amazon.com at a healthy discount.

This afternoon, Nick Mason turned up on Danny Baker's BBC London radio show to talk about the Pink Floyd studio album box set - which was released today in the UK. The two of them had a very entertaining, twenty-five minute natter, covering a lot of ground, particularly the early days of the band.

At times hilarious, others thought-provoking, it is an essential listen, and can be heard on demand for the next seven days using this link at www.BBC.co.uk (with Nick's part starting one hour into the show). Our thanks to Jeff Frost for the info!

We've been alerted by a few of you that the US Amazon.com store has seemingly completely sold out of its allocation of Pink Floyd's studio album box set, Oh By The Way!

The box set is a limited edition of 10,000 worldwide, and it looks like most of these have been snaffled up in pre-orders. So, if you want to give the set pride of place in your own home, you'd better act quickly! You can still order it from: Amazon UK, Amazon Canada, Amazon Germany, or Amazon France, all of whom will ship the set internationally, if you live in a different country.

UPDATE, December 12th: Amazon.com have just got a further, small supply of the box set, and are offering it again on their site.

You may recall our news story from July 25th, reporting that the Playbox Theatre in Warwick, in collaboration with the Oxjam Music Festival, were staging a new production of Pink Floyd's The Wall in November. The ambitious production was a success, raising much needed funds for the charity Oxfam.

Roger Waters' manager Mark Fenwick, and stage set designer Mark Fisher, both assisted with this new production, as did our friend Mark Cunningham who lent his own expertise as the show's production consultant. Mark runs the excellent Total Production International magazine, and he has given us as a BD exclusive his article on the event. Click here to download the 2.8MB PDF file.